Addington Park

Press, 2 August 1983, Page 18

Addington Park

Sir,—l would like to inquire through your paper when the City Council is going to clean up Addington Park. I use this park almost every day and it is a disgrace. It has been left a mess since the Brougham Street expressway was put in. The grass area on the Barrington Street side is rough. The pathway is broken and potholed, running out at the tree-line. Also, coming towards Lincoln Road one has to ride a cycle across the pedestrian crossing at the lights, then along the footpath to the mud and clay track that serves as a path until one reaches the main path (so-called). — Yours, etc., BILL PIERSON. July 7, 1983.

[The General Manager and Town Clerk for the Christchurch City Council, Mr J. H. Gray, replies: “The area of park in need of some attention is the land that was surplus to the Brougham expressway and is yet to be properly developed and amalgamated with

Addington Park. The pathway referred to is an old one and temporary repairs will be carried out as soon as possible. However, a landscape plan is to be prepared for the whole area and it is intended to realign the path to meet the traffic lights. The former expressway land is kept mown, but it is intended, following completion of the plan, to undertake development of the site.”]